Another....

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6448203.html

It's article day!! Yahoo Pipes this time!

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6456389.html?nid=3270

Another interesting article. Good idea for school librarians.

Wired Story

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/07/wiimote

Interesting article. I hope the avatars are clothed, unlike the world into which I was dropped in my "Second Life!"

Serenity Now!

It appears that my webpage is finally "viewable." Unfortunately, the images do not display when I type in the url and view the page. However, they are all there in Kompozer; that combined with having gotten the page to the server and be viewable is an encouraging accomplishment for this morning. Zoomclouds has decided to go goofy--it says I have no saved clouds, it won't display the clouds that are listed as being saved (yeah, go figure!) and when I try to generate a new one, it does what it did before....endlessly pretends to be generating a cloud. Enough for now. Quitting while I am ahead, more later!

The President Who Reads (and Writes)

Wow, imagine if Gore had retained the presidency to which he was elected--I think we'd be in a different place. I'm reading THE ASSAULT ON REASON and it's such a contrast to the president who doesn't read (or write). Okay, I still haven't figured out the mystery of my webpage, but at least I am enjoying the distractions of good writing and dusty trails. I tried Filezilla again, but my computer won't open it. I feel like the problem child of my class.

Gotta Love It.

Gotta love the YouTube/CNN debate, especially the snowperson asking the candidates what they will do to ensure the son lives a full life. No more melting snowpeople! Watch AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH again! What a great diversion from....wait no, I refuse to even think about it...web.... no won't do it!!!! Back to the very-now debate!!

Hand me the Ibuprofen!

Oh, my head is going to explode. I have spent hours and hours on trying to actually SEE my webpage. I called the HELP desk today and they said "yep, nothing's there." Well, why not?! Kompozer says it is published, the error message when I go to the url says it's there but it needs a login. The HELP desk offered some "help" which did not seem to help. I tried to drag the file into the directory, but I just get the same message. I've never had so many problems! Time to hit the trail again--maybe the trail all the way to DC, then I really won't have to think about this at all! LOL!

Worthy Research

http://www.fsu.edu/news/2007/07/19/harry.potter/
Click on this link to read about some interesting "information" research.

No Exit

Sartre's dark mood is encroaching on my mindspace today. No dusty trails today, only mud, lightning, etc. Thus, there is no escape. I have been sitting in front of two computers trying to figure out: 1. why can't I see my webpage? 2. what in the world do we do with Feed2JS? I can't even figure out what to download, let alone generating code to put on my webpage that no one can see anyway. It does not help that a certain four-footed, furry companion kept me up most of the night because of: 1. his fear of serious T-storms 2. his irrational desire to go OUT in the storm! Forget ground fog, I have brain fog. I'd say "bon nuit" but it's only a little past noon. C'est la vie.

Pedaling...

These one day vacations are becoming habit-forming; it was me and 40 miles of dirt trail today along with one very nice cycling companion. However, the answer to my webpage problems has not magically appeared as a vision while biking.... I guess I'll have to keep biking until I have a vision!

And now for something completely different....

The sun was shining, the sky was blue and there was nothing ahead of me but trail. It was a hot, dusty 50 mile ride through valleys, fields, rock formations and more, my bike and legs transporting me to a simple land...a land free of high technology... what a great one day vacation!

Web Page Publishing

Kompozer says it has published my webpage, but I can't get to it because it says the server requires a login. I've tried a lot of different things; time for a chocolate break.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Get in on the Presidential Debate!

Second Life

Oy, first of all, Second Life does not seem to work properly on my computer--really slowed it down and the graphics are awful. When I "landed" in my Second Life everyone was naked. My son had just walked into the room and I am sure he now wonders what I am really doing in school.
I have read various articles about Second Life, but I couldn't go any further with it because it locked up my computer; frozen, naked avatars, that's my experience of Second Life.

Perseverance

Just kept trying. Grazr kept giving me different things to copy and paste and the one below finally worked. Gees.

http://grazr.com/gzpanel.html?addbar=off&file=http://grazr.com/data/denali97/export.opml.xml

See, I Knew it Couldn't Be!

So, I click on the link and I get a 404 error. Grrr. Curses on Grazr!

The Return of the Widget

http://grazr.com/gzpanel.html?addbar=off&file=http://grazr.com/data/de

It can't be. After working on this ceaselessly in June, with no luck, today it worked? How can this be?

Kompozer = Headache

I have spent hours trying to publish my Kompozer page. I have no clue why it won't publish. I tried to download Filezilla, after reading posts of others who had done so and then were able to publish their pages. However, Filezilla will not download. Maybe it is because Second Life fried my computer? Nothing is making sense at this point.

My Head is Spinning

Chris was nice enough to answer my question, but now I don't understand the answer. It's like my directory should already be there? I don't know, I think I need a break--maybe a fresh mind tomorrow will be the best approach.

Web Page Woes

I read in the syllabus that we can use a suitable web page software, rather than Kompozer, so I made my web page in Front Page, since it's sitting on my computer. However, when I follow the instructions for creating my space on the unixs server, I cannot do it. It is so frustrating to have so many assignments in a row where things do not work. Okay, Koha was an exception. :-)
Now Chris has scheduled a help session for the OC visit, which is great, except I do not know if I can be there then, since it wasn't in the original plan. Grrrrr.

Koha seems to have actually worked. This would be the first thing which has worked lately. Wow.
Here is the link to my shelf:
http://pitt1.kohawc.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/bookshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=52

By the way, for whatever reason, blogger won't let me put a title on this post!

Clouds gone now

The dogs are back but my zoomcloud is gone. Oy ve!

Donde estan los perritos?

Hey, where did the dogs go? The photo of my dogs which was on my blog has disappeared. Maybe it will come back.

I got the Koha blues...oh yeah...

I have reviewed the Koha information and I have tried to use the PW and login which I just received a couple of days ago, but I can't log in and I don't know why. I seem to have one too many pieces of info for logging in, so who knows? Someone said this was a "fun" assignment and I sure could use one of those! Grrrrr. On the other hand, it was fun to apply some of what I learned about Web of Science and ENW in another class and in my own research. Thumbs-up on that one.